Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-16
THE RAILROADS.
The Fort Worth and RIO Grande Will
Probably Come Into the CITY
Over the Santa Fe.
Jay Gould to be Asked to Stay in Fort
Worth Long Enough to Soc the
City-Home Notes.
Home Notes.

Home Notes.
The Fort Worth Western officers snt
directors left New York for this city yes
terday.
Pre- sident Morgan Jones of the For
Worth and Denver says his road is no
quite to Denver yet.
Mr.. johnson, one of the proprietors O.
the Strawn coal mines, on the Texas anC
Pacific, was in the city yesterday.
Walter POLICEMAN, with L. p. Cowen 6
Co., tie contractors who supply the Mis-
souri, Pacific, was in the city last night.
Commencing tomorrow, the Missouri
Pacific will sell round trip tickets 60 Aus
tin for the Inauguration of Gov. Ross at
one fare.
An effort will be made to have Jay
Gould remain in our city long enough to
see what Fort Worth is and to show him
over the entire city.
Hugh Burns, one of the heaviest rail-
road contractors IN the state, was in the
city Yesterday on business with the Fort
Worth and Rio Grande.
The psy-car of the Fort Worth and
Denver went up the road yesterday with
Superintendent C. l.. Frost, Paymaster
Strong and Trainmaster Alvord on board.
President Dillingham; and A. II. Swan
son, vlce-president of the Fort Worth and
New Orleans road will, it IS said, be in
Fort Worth Wednesday on important
business.
Fl. B. Parsons and Royal Chaplin,
division engineers of the Fort Worth
and Rio Grande, arrived in the city from
Granbury last night, having come to hear
Bishop Garrett preach.
Fort Worth has excellent opportunities
to obtain connection with the San An
tonic and Arkansas Pass Road at several
points. Probably the principal connec-
ton will be by the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande.
Exactly where the engineers of the
Fort Worth Western were yesterday
could not be learned, but it is stated tnat
one line has been run through Jacksboro,
and that the party were well on their way
to Graham.
Two weeks from to-day President W.
3. Strong of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe anc also director of the South
ern Kansas from Fort Worth, with num-
Der of Boston and Topeka capitalists, will
be in Fort Worth.
go down the International and Great |
Northern road on their first day in Texas, |
and will come to Fort Worth from the |
South, over the Missouri Pacific. The |
party was still in Arkansas yesterday.
There is much talk of an accommoda-
ton train being run from beyond Gaines
vile on the Missouri Pacific through |
to Fort Worth, and to connect at Denton
with the mixed train for Dallas. This is
probably done to try and make as good
time as the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe.
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande has
not as yet, of course, made any arrange
ments to build branches, BUT it is said
that road to Glen Rose and Hamilton
has been spoken OF and considered by the
company. 1t is also said that before the
road takes its firstrest, if it takes any at
all, it will build 10 San Angelo.
Five miles OF track Is down in the In
lian Territory fir m Red river on the Fort
Worth extension of the Gulf, Colorado
md Santa Fe, and all the iron is on hand
or tho great bridge, while the false work
& low fully competed and trains cross
20 regularly. All piers but one are
~ hed and that Is nearly done.
'hst,s Fort Worth and Rio Grande now
;, "thenty-fve cars of steel here besides
,reaG~. uantity of ties, and Chief Engineer
PARSONS received q letter from Philsdel-
,hia yesterday to the effect that the great
ron bridge for the Brazos at Granbury
would be shipped by sailing vessel this
month. Mr.. Parsons thinks it will be an {
asy matter to have trains running into /
iranbury by March 10.
The prominent and public spirited (
BUSINESS men of Fort Worth are heart I
Iy in accord with the citizens :
# Mckinney and Bonham in de-
iring the early building of line con- s
ecting the cities mentioned and running
o Arthur City, where the Frisco will be s
net. Louisville, in Denton county, will Y
be on the line. AS stated =
PREVIOUSLY, the matter is now in the
ands of two of our capitalists and some
hing will surely be done very soon.
President Paddock of the Fort Worth
nd Rio Grsnde says negotiations are L
ow pending between the Gulf, Colorado
nd Santa Fe and his road, looking to an $
by which the tracks of the
primer road will be used by the Fort il
Worth and Rio Grande in coming into the Y
ity. The junction will be made two ;,
lllts SOulu vi rOll " VI III, duu IL Is pTOO- !,
BILE that the solution OF the troublesome
uestion to the road will he settled in
lis way. President Paddock says they S
ill have to put their round-houses- hops S
nd depot outside of the city, but will de- \
yer freight and passengers at the Santa u
e depot if the arrangement is perfected.
Callahan county intends to have COM v
littee of her most influential citizens t
ONE to Fort Worth on February l to 4
leet the prominent railroad builders v
-ho will be here about that time. The t
larendon in alluding to the matter, n
ays: Our railroad committee is hard at 1
ork, and when they meet the railroad
uilders at Fort Worth about February l
lie committee will be in shape to offer l
lie road the right of way from Coleman il
ity to a connection with the Fort Worth s
nd Denver al Vernon in Wilbarger S
ounty. Not only this, but a good bonus il
i'll be offered and the road will be built 4
he fact that as many as 100000 head of t
attle have been driven over this line in r
no